SCM Consultants Inc.

SCM Consultants Inc., a Subcontinent Asian American-owned, minority-owned small business based in Houston, Texas, supplies industrial hardware components and specialized equipment to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor through rapid-cycle purchase orders and indefinite-delivery contracts, competing in full-and-open procurements without set-asides on the vast majority of its work.

SCM Consultants operates as a Subchapter S corporation under primary NAICS 332613 (Spring Manufacturing) and related hardware manufacturing categories, with a federal contracting footprint that spans Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) divisions focused on Aviation, Land and Maritime, and Construction and Equipment procurement. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on supply-chain fulfillment of discrete hardware items — fasteners (retaining rings, screws, washers, bolts, nuts), electrical components (switches, connectors, cables, contacts), assemblies (cable assemblies, hose assemblies, brake lines), fluid-handling components (o-rings, seals, gaskets, valves), and specialty industrial items (wire rope, adhesives, sealing compounds, bearings, RF adapters). Representative named work includes a $4,042 DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment purchase order for a vaneaxial fan awarded July 16, 2026; a $3,850 DLA Land and Maritime purchase order for a swivel caster awarded October 15, 2025; a $3,598 DLA Land and Maritime order for electrical wire awarded May 13, 2026; and a $2,929 DLA Aviation order for wire rope awarded October 31, 2025. Individual purchase orders typically range from sub-dollar nominal amounts to approximately $4,400, with firm fixed pricing and two- to four-week completion windows.

Customer concentration sits entirely within the Department of Defense via the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 64 awards with $745 thousand combined potential value, and DLA Aviation accounts for 56 awards with $728 thousand combined potential value; together these two customers represent 120 of 157 total awards (76%) and account for approximately $1.47 million of the $1.5 million combined potential value. DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (33 awards, $15 thousand), DLA Troop Support Medical (3 awards, $342), and DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles (1 award) round out the active customer set. All awards are primary DLA purchase orders; no subcontract work is present in the portfolio.

SCM Consultants holds four active single-award indefinite-delivery contracts with DLA, each carrying a $350,000 ceiling and one-year terms running through early 2027. These include a May 5, 2026 award (Total Small Business set-aside) for self-locking nuts with anticipated 12 orders per year; an April 6, 2026 award (no set-aside) for helical compression springs with anticipated 4 orders annually; an April 6, 2026 award (no set-aside) for nonmetallic seals with anticipated 3 orders yearly; and a February 2, 2026 award (no set-aside) for cable assembly power components with anticipated 12 orders per year. The indefinite-delivery vehicles are structured with guaranteed minimum annual quantities and 86- to 158-day delivery windows to DLA depots across the continental United States and overseas consolidation points. These four contracts represent the vendor's only parent vehicle holdings visible in the source.

Activity has grown sharply in recent years. The source records 5 awards in 2022 (the vendor's entry year), 30 awards in 2025, and 122 awards in 2026 year-to-date, indicating sustained quarter-over-quarter expansion in DLA order volume. Combined obligated dollars stand at $90 thousand against $1.5 million combined potential value, reflecting the early-stage realization typical of purchase-order and indefinite-delivery portfolios. No recompete cliff is apparent; the four active indefinite-delivery contracts expire in early 2027, and individual purchase orders complete within weeks of award.

SCM Consultants performs all work in-house from its Houston facility and does not engage subcontractors. The vendor's category concentration spans fasteners, hardware, adhesives, electronic components, and specialty industrial items — a procurement posture aligned with DLA's rapid-cycle, lower-dollar logistics supply chains rather than systems integration, engineering, or managed services work. The firm competes across full-and-open DLA purchase orders and single-award indefinite-delivery vehicles; set-asides appear in only one of 157 awards visible in the source (the May 2026 self-locking nuts contract under Total Small Business).